Evansville Journal, Volume 10, Number 9, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 25 January 1844 — Page 1

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$ 50, In Advance $3 00, c the end of in year.Aareritsejnenis inserted at $1 00 for three-insertions of 12 lineSj and 25 cents for each continuance. - From the Philadelphia Forum. . THE 'COON SONG. - Tvyz 'Dandy Jim of Caroline. A race! a race! And who will win? Wbo will be out? who will be in J -Trot out your nags! we'll eee who'll take From all, the Presidential stake! The people say they'll go for Clay, The true heart's hope, the country's stay ; So raise the shout and clear the way; For work and worth and Harry Clay! ' First Tyler comes the boon to crave, . A laugh and hiss meet the traitor knave, He lower his nose and sneaks away. For he dares not face old Harrj Clay, For the people say, etc. Next sneaking in, Grimalkin Van, Funs low, and thinks "I will if I can." But we whipp'd biro once, Lord how he ran ! Hang up your fiddle you're not the man. For the people say, etc. Then comet Calhoun, now right, now wrong, Though six feet two, he's nothing long," But short or talt, he'll be no higher, : We'll nullify the nullifier! For the people say, etc. . TherVs old Teccmseh, he wont do. While he loves black, he will get blue: And takings wife, so weak bis sight. Poor -nan! be didn't know black from white. So the people say, etc. - JJucbt.nao cornea. A shilling a day ! , Work Locos! Huw d'ye like your pay? Old Conestoga's etall'd, they say, He's sticking in Kentucky Clay. For the people say, etc. . Kow hobbles in ild Madam Cage, .She's not what she was, alas! alas! She might be a pat of the frog-eater's kingWhere the people rule she's not the thing. " For the people ey, etc. ; & - - - - - , . Then Clay, with a lion port strides by, And shouta of thunder cleave the Bky; ". The pure, the bright, the tried and true. The laurel wreath belongs to you. For th people say, etc. . HENRY CLAY AND THEMISTOCLES. If we are to believe the various leaders aud divisions of the Locofocos, Henby Clay is to ba elected President, on the same grouncLthatthe rival Grecian Captains awarded Themistocles the honors of the victory at Sdamis. Each man claimed tt for himself, but agreed that Thmistocles was next in merit. Plutarch.in his life of Themistocles. I thus relates the story: . . I When the vessels arrived at the Isthraui 1of Salamis, the captain placed aballotiulhe j 'Temple of Neptune, giving judgement for those tribes and persons who had most distinguished themselves. "Among the Commandes, Themistocles, in spite of envy, was universally allowed to have distinguished himself, most; for when they came to the Isthmus, and evey officer took a billet, from the altar, to enscribe upon it the names of those who had done the best service, every oue put himself in the first place, Themistocles, in the second. The Lacedemonians having conducted him to Sparta, adjudged Euribiades the prize of, valor, and Themistocles that of wisdom, honoring each with a crown of olive." This is a lesson for us to imitate. Each of the Democratic political captains say, that he himself is the only one to succeed r if not, Henry Clay," Why not settle the matter at once, by electing Henry Clay the only one whose capacity and services are undented? - Again, like the Spartians who awarded the prize of Valob to Euribiades, we have given the prize of valor to Gen. Jackson. Why not give the prize of political wisdom to " Henry Clay, as they did to Themistocles? , Ought the pride of party to deprive the country cf the services of its really able and sagacious statesmen? Cin. Chron. FIRST APPEARANCE. The Washington corresponde nt of the Bos ton Post, gives the following account of the first appearance oP'the tall member of Congress," at the National Theatre a few nights since : Our friend from Illinois attracted the iaost attention and afforded the most amusement on Wednesday evening. Finding the box too short to stow away his legs with any degree of comfort, he hung them over into the pit but there they so much annoyed the persons sitting underneath, that he was requested by-the police officer of the house, to remove them or buy another ticket for them. - He adopted the alternative, and thus secur ed and occupied a seat in the box and pit at the same time." An English lady, who went tomakepurchasesln Jamaica, accompanied by her black maid, was repeatedly addressed by the negro shopmen as "massa," whereupon her able follower exclaimed with a look of in finite contempt, "why for you spenk such bad English nogrammer, sabby? Why foi you call my missus m3saa? Stupid fellah I him'a a she." Jamaica paper.

From the New York Sun. THE MECHANIC. Have you ever met with a little - bit of a book by Frances Harriet Whipple, published at Providence, (R. I.) by Barnett and

King, and entitled "The Mechanic ?" If you have, you will understand us, and the little we have now to say. If you have not go and buy it, it you are a mechanic, or a friend of the mechanics. It is one of the most womanly things you ever met with f full of the dignity of human nature, and all alive with the naturalness of a true earnest faith. It is very clear that the author, unmarried when she wrote the book, but married, we see now; out of business a year ago, but we hope in business now, and likely to be for the rest of her life; has a wholesome and hearty Tespect for the married, the useful, and the ma A of business? Eloquent, free spoken, hearty, aud ' fearless, you see that she is not ashamed-'of the mechanic, her fellow countrymen. She acknowledges them in a way never to Be mistaken. While portraying the hero of ber story, she has the hardihood are you not ashamed? the hardihood, instead of palteringvith a shadow, to go to work in sober earnest, instead of being mealy-mouthed, to come to the point at once, and make a man of him, a great co-worker with God, an apprentice to the builder of the Universe. . Read the passage below and judge for yourself. We have heard of this woman befj:e; and we rejoice to find her up . and a doing, where, alas! though the field is whitening to the harvest, there is so much to be done and so few to do it Incalcuable mischietis done by making all the heroes of our story books, novels, romances aud magazines, idlers, and men of wealth, family and leisure. What is to become of the rest of the world, if those only are worth having? But fashionable paupers and helpless waddlers have had their day, we hope, among women of sense, and they who are too proud to steal, who to beg are ashamed; the honest, the hard working, and the thrifty, who maintain all the rest of the world, begin to be remembered; and faith it is high time. And now for the passage we promised you: "The hero, after a long absence from the woman of his heart, re-appears with a letter, and is questioned by her father, in her presence, upon a variety of subjects, and among other about his family He replied, that his ancestors, for several generations, had dwelt in A ; and further back he knew nothing of them, thy ugh possibly his grandmother mighthe able to tell the lady, were she alive aud present, but she,, unfortunately, not being only absent, but dead, the "probability was, that the great question of our hero's ancestry would retnanin unsettled.So was his claim to ancient blood rendered at least questionable. Claim, did I say? He made, none ; for he plainly told her ' that his ancestry-and connexions were all, so far as he knew them, hard laboring but respectable, and very honest people. Miss Augusta turned up her own very gentle descending nose: though in the individual it must be confessed, this feature Lore rather a questionable mark of gentleness. Mr. Thompson saw that unfortunate turn: and was a lover of peace,and a polke man withal," he be gan making some inquiries of his individual prospects, finally asking, 'in what business do you propose to engage? Any thing in the manufacturing line? 'Another bad hit,' thought Tom, while Bell realy turned pale. 'He will be severy shocked, now,' thought she, but nothing was more foreign to him. 'I am a carpenter, sir,' be replied with the air of a prince, Bell thought. It was indeed with that dignity of manners, which, being assured in itself, s'ieks no foreign seal. '1 am a carpenter, sir, and expect to work at my trade.' Mr3. Thompson moved in her chair as if agitated by a very slight electric snock. Miss Augusta drew herself up to rather more than her usual height, while Mr. Thompson himself manifested no slight surprise; yet he said, 'That's a good business, but hardly one that a young man of your advantages would be likely to engage in at this day. Perhaps it was your father's wish?' 'No, Sir,' replied Victor, proudly ; for he saw the effect his communication had made: 'No sir, my father intended me for the bar ; but I choose my own business, and to be a finished architect is now the highest aim of my ambition, Architecture, sir, is a noble Science; and it is a devine art. I have had a passion for it longer than I can remember; and would it hot be a shame for me to sacrifice this ability for Certain usefulness, to a miserable pride, a silly prejudice'.' 'True, very true, but the girls now-a-days have ,but a poor idea of mechanics. How is it? Am I ngbt Bell ? I cannot teU how it is with you : but when I was a young man, my chief desire was to please the girls.' 'I have chosen my profession for myse If sir, and the community tn which 1 live; and I shall not take the trouble to enquire who else may be pleased or displeased! The girl that I can love will have too good a heart as well as too strong a mind to admit such narrow veiws. She must have generous and liberal thoughts, a penetrating and trulhloving eye, that can pearce the excellence, the beauty, of true manly labor! She will not look upon it merely as a. mode of getting bread, but as the gymnasium of the great academy which is called life, wherein the scholar's soul may be exercised according to its various capacities, as it may gather the truest and noblest st renath, and without which strength is not. This single principle, sir, of the dignity of mau his innate tendency to good hisj iniversal capacity for greatness nay, the absolute greatness ot t every human soul I would not yeild for the ' sake of being married to the Empress, were t I to be raised to an equal place on the throne beside her. To me, every true man is in

vested with a dignity and grandeur which no

human agency could either create or destoy. Crowns, coronets, and mitres, the highest officers, both State and Church, are made by men, and of man they hold their power; but who has ever created a man and gave him power, save God only?5 As he paused, tbe eyes of Victor met those of Bell. There was a mutual flash a mutual revela tion of thought and their spirits stood as it were, face to face. They knew3ach other. For a moment they gazed into evh other's eyes, with the piercing . earnestnese of a truth seeker; and not that conscientious blush, as a threshhold, where the kindred soul went forth, and met, and recognized", and embraced each other. Henceforth they were not strangers." -There ! what d'ye say to that, men of America women of America? . . FARMING. It is a sore evil that Labor, so essential to Health, Vigor,and Virtue, is generally regarded with aversion. WTben those who boast that they live by stright-forward hard work are almost uniformity seeking to escape from their condition. Even the substantial, thrifto Farmer, whose life is or might be among the happiest,is apt to train his darling son for a profession or put him into a store. He laudably wishes to put him forward in the world, but he does not. think that half the time and expense bestowed in making him an average Lawyer or Doctor would suffice to make him an eminent mtellinent and scientific Farmer a model and blessing to the whole Country. Wrhy will not our thrift" Farmers think of this? . 1 he world is surfeited with middling Lawyers and Doctorsthe gorge even of Iowa rises at the prospect of a new batch of either ;of tolerable Clergymen there is certainly no lack, as the multitude without societies bears witaess, and yet here is the oldest, the most essential and noblest of employments, on which the full blaze of science has hardly yet poured, and which is to-day making more rapid strides, and affords a more promising field of intellectual power than any other, comparatively, shunned and neglected Of good, thoroughly educated, at once scientific and practical Farmers, there is no where a super-abundance. Every where there is need of this class, to introduce new processes and improve old ones, to naturalize and bring perfection the plants, grain9,fruits,&ci'.ve still import from abroard when we might, better produce , them at home to introduce a proper rotation and diversification of cropsto prove and teach how to produce profitable the most grain to the acre : short to make agriculture, the pleasing, attractive, ennobling pursuit it was providentially designed to be. There is no broader field of usefulness no surer road to honorable eminence, The time will come when, of the men of tbe last, generation, Ar thur Young will be mord widely honored than Nt.poleon. But while the true Farmer should be the most thoroughly educated and well informed men in the country, there are many of our old Farmers, even, who will cheerfully spend a thdusaud dollars to quali fy one son for a profession, yet grudge a hundred each to educate the three or four less favored who are to be farmers: Theraare Farmers who cultivate hundreds of acios and never look into a book on . Agriculture, though they would not countenauce a Doctor or Clergyman who had studied no works on Medicine or Theology. What a world of mistakes and inconsistencies is displayed all around us. ., ; . ' There are thousands in all our Cites who are well imployed and in good circumstances; we say, let those eontinue if they are conlent, and feel certain that the world is better for their daily doings. There are other tens of thousands who must stay here, as things are ; having no means to go elsewhere no skill in any arte but those peculiar to City life, and a very limited knowledge; these must stay, unless something should transpire out of the common course of events. There are other tens of thousands annually arriving from Europe, who, however acquisitions to the country, must contribute to glut the mar ket and depress the price of labor of all kinds in our City some of these must remain here till they can obtain means to go elsewhere. But for young meu from our own happier Agricultural districts to drowd into the great Cities or ikto villages, In search of clerk ships and the like, is madness inhumanity to the destitute moral suicide.While ninetenths of our States are a waste wilderness, and all our marts of Trade overflow with ea ger seekers for employment, let all escape lrom Cities who can, and all who have op portunities to labor and live in the country, resolve to stay there. From the Fcpner's Monthly Visitor. QUALIFICATIONS OF A FARMER'S ' WIFE. A writer in the Visitor for May, speaks of tne great importance ot temales, especially tne wives ot tarmes, being acquainted with all die duties of domestic kind, and bestows high encomiums upon her"who rises with the lark," prepares suitable food for her familv &,c. My opinion pefectly coincides with his as to the importance of a farmer's wife to know, aud that she superintend and asp'st in her domestic duties, so that every thing be done as it should be. Yes! I would praise her for her skill in preparing the hot cakes and early breakfast. Yet I would contend for the superiority of her, who with neatness and skill performs her routine of domestic duties with alacrity, in order to spend a few hours in useful reading, that she may impart light and knowledge to those around her, thereby enriching her own mind, and the minds of her children, so that they may become useful members of society. -

Time is making vast ravages among those

who take an active interest in the welfare of our country. Who are to take their places? Shall. we look for them in our large cities? Do not many of their young men live in idleness and dissipation? Are they accustomed to that close application to study and business, which is necessary to discipline their mmas and fit them for important places in the government? Where, I say, are we to. look for our future legislators and statesmen, but among the sons of our honest yeomen? : . v And does not the formation of their minds depend upon their mothers? A?e net the first impressions the strongest and most lasting? And are not those received from the mother? Is not the child taught the love of .good and evil, and the love of God and his country, from his - mother? Does he not imbibe her sentiments and feelings with the, first dawnings of reason? How important, then, that she be intelligent; and that her sentiments be correct and her judgment good. . - :; ' The business of farmers require constant attention through the busy seasons of the year, they have but little leasure for intellec tual pursuits, or instruciton of their children, and tne woman -who spends some portion of her time in useful reading and imparting the information thereby gained to those around her, does abundantly more benefit to her fam ily, than she could possibly do in raking hay or picking potatoes. ' We are . creatures of imitation, monkey-like. If a child sees its mother take a book, he likewise will take one. 11 sue speaks ot what sue reads, he will likewise, and so imprint it on his memory. The influence of such a woman is great. It will be felt around her, and it will tell upon a generation yet unborn. Women posses quicker sensibilities and finer feelings than men, and they have more leisure for improvement. . Let them improve their time to the Ibest advantage, "and we shall have an intelligent community. A man's mind is not very like to expand or be elevated, whose wife can talk of-nothing but feeding the ducks and chickens: tho' the ducks and chickens should be . fed, and fed often, too. - , '1 CAN'T AFFORD IT.' 'I can't afford to take a newspaper,' was the answer receiv ed a few days ago, from a worthy farmer of our neighborhood, when asked to subscribe for our paper. He was the father of a large family, (tbta -Li miawet we were induced to believe that no newspaper ever entered the walls of his dwelling, aud that himself and family were utterly ignorant of - the many interesting events now transpiring in the world; and what was worse, likely to remain so, unless, indeed, he belonged to that class of readers the pe3t of their neighbors and the abhorrence of printers called borrowers. Not afford to take a newspaper!! and yet this individual could spend his hundreds on the persons of his children, to make them respectable, whilst the mind was entirely neglected. Can't afford to take a j newspaper! What does this mean? It means, in plain English, I can't afford to inform myself, or give my4family tbe means of information or instruction.- 1 prefer Igno rance to intelligence and rather than spend my money would see my family become dull, stupid dolts despised by themselves and ridiculed by all. Mouey before knowl edge, is the language of those who, be ing able to pay, offer the excuse refered to m the commencement ot t us article, cut what shall we say of newspHper borrowers? WilJ you subscribe for our paper On no, I believe not I get my neighbor's paper every week, and that will do for me? Such answers we have frequently received, an answer containing more double refined meanness could not be found. But aside from the meanness of reading a borrowed paper,wheu the individual could afford to take one him self, it is plainly dishonest, 'flat burglary.' You deprive your neighbor of his rights which he paid for with his money, and pre vents his family from obtaining the mlormat on always conveyed through the public press. Will, you say, that your neighbor has already read it and gives it cheerfully. That may be true, and yet the case is not altered. A newspaper is useful for reference, as well as for present reading; and then your neigh bor has too much politeness to retuse your request, knowing that one who is mean enough to make the request to borrow, would be mean enough to reseni a refusal! Besides the printer has his rights which are grossly violated by this system of borrowing he is in fact robbed and dispoiied. He expends his time, labor, talents and money on his paper, for the gratification of his sub scribers, and yet the reward comes not, be cause many of his readers are borrowers. Now we ask all such, is it fair! Do you give the printer any value for Tvhat you receiver And after you have read a borrowed news paper, does your conscience approve the deed It it . does not, and it you are now satisfied you have injured your neighbor and cheated the printer by being a borrow er, go and subscribe at once . for a newspa per, and when Tour friend calls to. borrow yours, tell him to "go and do likewise." 7-A new paper the 'Communitist,' has been started at Motlville, Onondago county, N. Y., the organ of a new sect of Philosoph ers. Their principles may be guessed trom the following extract: -: Human rights are equal the world around the earth and its products are the common property of the race; all buying and selling are damning falsehoods; all sects and par ties, civil and ecclesiastical, priests and poll ticians, churches and governments, are mon strosities of iguorance, superstition, and big otry. " ; ";"' -'- -.. ,

KISSING A NEW YEAR'S CUSTOM. Mick Mahony, Mrs. Biddy Mahony and Nancy Donahoe were individually and collectively charged yesterday before the Recorder, by the watchman, with disturbing the peace., - ; Miss Donahoe was a good-looking, round, red-faced, blue eyed girl. Mrs. Mahony was a hard-featured, sharp-nosed lady, with a tongue which seemed to operate on the principles of perpetal motion; and Mr. Mahony was a humorous-looking character, - with a leer in his eye and a laugh playing about the comers of his mouth, which were well calculated to excite the .jealousy of Mrs M. when so comely a colleen as Nancy Donahoe was in :he case. ; -. The "watchman . was .proceeding to state the charge with loquacious verbosity ,but Mrs Mahony claimed of the court the riht tore-

late the matter herself, alleging that she was the injured individual. vAs she would not be silent, the Recorder ' assented, and she went on, her lord and master, Mick, looking imploringly into her eyes in the meantime, and making an appeal to her pity in the following words: " - -. " "Biddy, Biddy, jewel, be aisy, and if ye can't be aisy, be as aisy as you can." Biddy heeded not the voice of the charmer but proceeded. . "Well, ye see on ,Nev Year's night, yer aner, I bad a nice little tay party at me place, and of coorse, whin the iimmeenitea equipage were - removed,-we had adhrop of punch in aner of the night, though sarrah a dhropofit did I ifake meself, on account of the pledge,"- .-. . - ; - "There's a good one !" said Mick, in sotto voce, turning to Nancy D. "Mrs. Mahony," said the Recorder, "you are too discursive too prolix. I only wish you to state the cause of the riot or disturbance. - i . . , - "I'm comin' to the point,yer aner,"returued Biddy. . . .; "O, Biddy, acushla," said Mick, "ye know 'twas all a bit of a joke a New Year's night frolic." - .:- "A purtyjoke if was, ye dssavin villian!" exclaimed Biddy. . "That's the father of me four children to.be kissin' that brazeD-faced hussey : there the instant ye got me back turned and you purtindin' to be so jealous of Tim me Mother'; Doolin all the time, that was cousin be his Father's side, and " Mrs Mahony," said the Recorder,"I cannot sit hero and listen. to- the.-, genealogy of your family or the degree of onsanguinity that exists between you and Tim Doolin. I again call on you to come to the cause . of the disturbance for which you were arrested " ' ;. - "Well, thin," resumed Mrs Mahonyvvhin we were all sated round the table,as happy as ve piase, cnatun' and taiuin' aoout old times, Mick sis to Harry Whelan, sis he; 'Harry avick, lit's hive . a song. 'Always c'ontmt, sis Harry. hat II ye have Mrs. Mahony f sis he to me. Please yerself,Misther Whelan,' sis I, 'and ye please me ;' so with that hecomminced 'Hurrah for O'Connell, who'll get us Repale!' Well, he hadn't well begun it whin me bowld Mick sis 'I beg yer pardin, ginteel9,' jist that a-way, quite purlitely like and up he gits and walks out, and out he stays, and sarrah a sign ol him there was comm' in whin the song, which has twinty-one varses in it, was incored. Well, yer aner, I begins to smill a rat, and I ups and goes to the dure, and there 1 iears Miss Donahoe, the forward . minx, though she looks now as if butther would'nt milt in her moutli singin' in great glee Rory O'More.' Well, I stales to the windy she lives nixt dure and sure enough, whin she cum to the chorus of 'It's . eight times to-day that the ye kissed me afore,' the vasabone does shute the action to the word, and gives her a smackin' thorumpogue! Well, 'twas too much for ilesh and blud to stand, so of coorse I gev both oi thim what they desarved I gov thim sugar m their ty I" : . .. .. . "That's sufficient," said the Kecorder. "What have you to say Mr. Mahony?,' Mick smiled amorously, drew his band over his face, and looked archly between his extended fingers at Nancy Donahoe and Mrs. Mahony. He acknowledged the soft im peachment of kissing Nancy, but pleaded in extenuation the privilege of doing so on New Year's night: and furtner that. Biddy issed Tim Doolin right forninsthis face! The. Recorder viewed the affair in the same hilarious light that Mick Mahony did, and discharged the parties on paying jail fees. . .. "Hannibal," said a certain waggish gentle man, somewhat disguised in liquor, to the darky who lighted him to bed at Hewlett's Hotel last -ght "Hanuibal you are a great (bic hicup!) a very great man. You are (hie hicup!) a greater man that I am, Hannibal 1 ' "Why," said Hannibal, ..rolling his eyes around, out of pride for the compliment paid him, '"mong darkies I s some, massa,taat am a fac, but I.can't shine 'mong white folks, no how." . . . "I say you are a greater man than I am, Hannibal. You can bold a candle to me,and, situated aa I am at present,! can't hold a candle to you! not for want of fixity of purpose, mind you, Hannibal, but for want of fixity 01 footing'. . - Hannibal smiled, showing his ivories to a considerable extent. iV. O. Picayune. 03-A paper out West tells a story of a disconsolate widower, who on seeing the re mains of his late wife lowered into the grave, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes Well, I've lost hogs and I've lost cows, but I never had anythiug to cut me up lixe this! .

HORRORS OF WAR.

We all have read of Barcelona hi Spwn.,or heard of the famous city the grand mart of Spanish. commerce and mannfar.tnrf'9 siwt the most beautiful city in that kingdom. Such has been the result of the intestine war and revolution, that that city 13 utterly ruined. A few months ago Barcelona possesesd a population of 170.000 inhabitants, who kept in motion an extensive trade with America, England, the Le vent, and Africa,in silks cottons, printed calicoes, lace, Gbcegjewlery, tu wine, an manufactured witmn its walls or immediate vicinity; but a few weeks of revolution have sufficed to desotaie this magnificent city; and its manufactories- warebouses, and shora are deserter! anH nlnnrW. ed,and many are in ruins; the Cathedral,wii h . its noble interior and Prnve if oranapa. ratfi flowers and citrons, has been desecrated into a powder magazine and fortress, and many of its beauties defaced; the principles streets are .intersected with ditches and barricades, and 30,000 ruined families erst sr indinfr',oua and thriving have passed into France, or seen a precarious living in the surrounding towns and villages, whilst a nllsfirahlfi rprrnauthave remained behind to share in or suf fer the combined horrors, of famine, linm. bardmeat and rapine.' N.: Y. '.Sun. Roped i 'Captain,' said an up river rafter as he stepped aboard of a boat at the land ing yesterday, 'what time'U you be off?' 'In a few minutes now; the second bell's rung,' replied the captain. 'Just in time,' aid the rafter. 'Well, I want to know whether" you wouldn't take a few Wheeling for me?' , Well,', said the captain, 'I don't know the Iaw3 of the postof fice department are very strict, and Mr, Wickliffe has already prosecuted several boats.' 'No fear of that,' said the rafter; 'I tnow Wickliffe like a book: his aunt's tieice is a cousin to a friend of my wife; and he don't care ad n.' 'Wellwcll," repl'ed ' the captain, 'fetch the lines aboard; can you keep dark?' 'O, yes,' said the - rafter, with, a wink, 'I understand; thankee.' .. In -t few -rqinutes the rafter was seen rolling a huge store box op the, gangway plank and on to the forecastle. 'Hallo, there! what the deuce is that?', cries the . captain. 'Them lines,' said the rafter. 'Them d Is!' exclaimed the captain; 'I thought that it was a letter you wanted me to take.' 'No, no, a box of clothes line for "my grocery in . Wheeling; but for the matter of a letter, if you've got 'a' cisrk:'that could wnie "nrr one afore you start, I 'Go ashore- go ashore!' said the captain, as he rang the 'last bell,' laughing in spite of himself; 'I'll take your bloody lines back her! Roped in, by golly.' And away puffed the 'Express Mail" ' one way, and the rafter another. THE REWARD OF EDITORS. The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette makes the following remarks on the retirement of an editor trom his chair. Who thiit knows any thing of the life and labors and rewards of an -editor will net agree to what is said? ' '."William Penn Chandler, for some time past the editor of the Wilmington Gazette, makes a graceful bow on retiring. : He Jias do je very well in his way, and made a good Locofoco editor. We are glad for his name's sakethat he has. withdrawn. Why should he spend his life, and lend considerable talents, to such an occupation! Where grows the grass upon the grave of three rich editori in the United States? Tbey live in turmoil, are criticised, lauded, condemned, and die poor. The present generation, perhaps, has learned something. But the practice is not easily altered. We wish the retiring editor success in his future pursuits. - .. Young woman are being employed la all sorts of duties now in Paris. They are even assuming the places of the clerks in counting -houses. Grant in his new work says : -' "Indeed the young Parisian woman are beginning to be trained as clerks for banking and commercial houses. They are found to be steadier and more attentive than young men. In one of the first and wealthiest -banking houses in Paris, you may now see every day two interesting daughters of the . principal partner, one of tbem tighteen years of age, the other twenty, at 'work at ' their desks during business hours, and ' dis--charging their duties a3 cleiks,witii dispatch, correctness and cheefulness. "Indeed the -plan is working so well that the government itself is beginning to employ young females in the public offices.' . ' Impost jckt Remedy roa Cancers. Col onel Ussey of the parish of De Soto,, informs the editor of the Caddo Gazette, that he Las fully tested a remedy for this troublescmo disease, recommended to him by a Spanish woman, a native of the country. T.he rem edy is this Take an egg and break it, ihea poor out the white, retaining the yeili in tfe , shell put ta salt and mix with the- yclt long as it will receive it; stit them, together until tbe sake is formed, put a portion et this on a sticking plaster, and apply it to tho cancer about twice a day. He has made the experiment in two instances ia his own family with complete success. A NEW STATE PROPOSED, - A bill has been introduced in the Legislature ot Tennessee, now in session, for the f stablishment of a new State out of the territory of East Tennessee. The counties proposed to be ceded, in order to form the new State, to be najed "Frank land," are twenty six in number. It is proposed also m the bill that to tbe new'State may be added such portions of the States of North Caicluia, Virginia, and Georgia, as may be ceded for the purpose. . ' - f "'- '. ..;

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